On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 10:46:36AM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 10:39:09AM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 12:14:25AM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > In svn of d-i has under /people/stappers/packages/netcfg/
> > > a netcfg that does a DHCP request that can be identified
> > > a request from netcfg.
>
> now also in trunk
And meanwhile in the netcfg udebs in the Debian-Installer.
> > > At DHCP server side you have in /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf lines like these:
> > >
> > > if substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 14) = "NetcfgDHClient" {
> > > filename "proto://host.tld/newFileName"; }
> > > else { filename "i386/pxelinux.0"; }
>
> So check in the "vendor class identifier" for the string 'NetcfgDHClient'
>
> > At the d-i install client you find the filename in
> > the dhcp leases files
>
> example given:
>
> grep filename /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.leases
>
>
>
The filename can be set in the preseed/url key with this patch
--- packages/preseed/debian/network-preseed.postinst (revision 34697)
+++ packages/preseed/debian/network-preseed.postinst (working copy)
@@ -27,5 +27,17 @@
fi
}
+LEASE="notfound"
+test -x /sbin/dhclient && LEASE=/var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.leases
+test -x /sbin/dhclient3 && LEASE=/var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.leases
+if [ -r ${LEASE} ]
+then
+ FN=$( sed -n -e '/filename/s/.*"\(.*\)"./\1/p' ${LEASE} )
+fi
+if [ -z ${FN##*://*} ]
+then
+ db_set preseed/url ${FN}
+fi
+
preseed preseed/url
preseed_command preseed/early_command
That has the advantage that preseed/url=URL doesn't have to be provided
at the bootprompt.
The patch is is also committed into trunk.
My question:
Any objections to upload it, so it gets into beta2?
Cheers
Geert Stappers
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